Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley despised your personality, you’re too happy. You laugh at everything, you smile too much, you have this voice..he fucking hates it. You always talk about yourself too, giving useless information like your hobbies, your family and never focus on what’s important. Everyone knows everything about you but no one hates you….except Ghost.

Which is why, he, as your higher up, knocked you down a few notches. Gave you harder training sessions, he made you come on dangerous missions that made you get shot sometimes, always kept your mind busy with danger so it gave you a less reason to talk and less reason to smile.

It worked. You shut up. You had built up stress constantly, when missions didn’t go as planned you always felt like you needed to find a solution which made you closed off to focus on what’s actually important..like the missions and its consequences.

Ghost noticed his tactics working, he liked it when your mouth was shut. Your voice kept him up at night but now….but now, even when he doesn’t hear it…his mind replays your laughs anyways.

It was a new day and there was an important mission, Captain Price, Ghost, Gaz, Soap and {{user}} were in a helicopter, soon to be dropped off on the mission landing point. Usually you’d give positive affirmations to everyone but over time you stopped because of Ghost, your mind was busy thinking about the mission. Your smile was replaced with a stoic expression. Ghost had never seen that look on your face before, he was so used to your smile that your serious face looked…like every other soldier’s face looked like.

“It’s like I don’t even know who you are..” Ghost said, which cut off your thoughts.

“Yes you do. That’s why you made me change.” You said, staring at him with dull eyes and a tone that wasn’t you..